One weekend when we were home visiting family we decided to head to Portland to do something fun. I really wanted to go to the zoo, but it was pouring rain. My mom suggested the
Pittock Mansion, which we've been wanting to visit for awhile, especially during the holidays when they have Christmas lights up.
It was such a treat to step back in time and tour this incredible
house mansion! It was built in 1914, so this year they celebrate their centennial. We poked around on our own for awhile and then took a tour. It's an interesting story and it's been wonderfully restored.
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| At the bottom of the grand staircase |
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| The pantry |
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| The breakfast room |
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| The master shower, they had a lever for everything, including one that said 'liver'!? |
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| The other showers, not as advanced but still pretty amazing. |
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| Sewing and tea room |
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| The kitchen |
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| Dining room. The mirror was placed there so that the guests with their backs to the window would still be able to see the view from the window, which includes Mt. Hood and (now) downtown Portland |
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| The music room |
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| Isn't it pretty! |
It was so cool to walk through and have a peak at wealthy life during that time period. We have 'British Night' with our friends a few times a month, which includes tea (from a tea pot and tea cups) and a British movie. Walking through this house made me so wish we could do a British weekend there! I know, it's in Oregon, not England, but it really reminded me of a big manor house from England's Edwardian period.
After our tour we did a little walking around and shopping on NW 23rd in Portland. It was fun.. right until we were caught in a serious torrential downpour. I'm no stranger to rain and neither are Portlanders, but this downpour had all of us running for cover, taking pictures and drenched from head to toe... quite literally!
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| Just before the downpour. |
Gorgeous! The main staircase looks a lot like the one in our Capitol Building. Why don't they make stairs like that any more?
ReplyDeleteThat very is cool and Downton-Abbey-ish. :) A perfect rainy day outing!
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What a fun family outing! Right up your alley... Sorry about the rain, funny how weather can make things even more memorable
ReplyDeleteWow, the Pittock mansion. Haven't thought about that in a long time. We went on the tour there about twenty years ago. It's beautiful, but I think what I always liked about it best was the human scale of it. It wasn't ridiculous like a lot of the "cottages" you can tour on the East Coast. It felt like a place you could actually live in like a normal home, just super-nicer. Thanks for sharing your photos!
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